ARE THERE PIGS BEHIND THE FLU?
November 25, 2009


Behind the current panic about swine-flu may be one of the most audacious pharmaceutical profit scams of all times, a scam that is earning billions of dollars to those marketing the magic anti-flu serum for which people queue up these days.
This marketing coup might be just as brazen as the one that sold the United States and its allies on going to war in Iraq.
While governments are ordering hundreds of millions of anti-flu doses for their panicked citizen few of these citizens are wondering why so much attention is lavished on this flu strain when half a million people are killed each year by the common flu, a toll that hardly raises eyebrows these days.
So far only a handful of people had their deaths blamed on swine-flu.
On the other hand each year at least two million people die of malaria, deaths that could be prevented by issuing mosquito nets to those in malaria prone areas.
But no one talks about that.
And no one talks about the two to three million earthlings who die each year of diarrhea, which could be easily avoided by a cheap iodine salt solution that costs merely a quarter of a dollar. Other mass illnesses (that could be easily cured) kill tens of millions each year.
But all these are rarely mentioned in our news bulletins.
We had a prelude to the swine-flu, it was called the chicken flu and it killed some 250 people over a period of ten years (compared to an average half a million people who die each year as the result of ordinary flu.)
The chicken flu paranoia resulted in the pan-national Roche pharmaceutical company selling millions and millions of its Tamiflu to mainly Asian countries even though there is still controversy whether this preventive is effective or causes negative side effects. Britain alone ordered 14 million doses even though a package of this dubious remedy sells for fifty US dollars, a ridiculously high price.
But then miracles are not cheap.
The patent for Tamiflu is owned by the Gilead Sciences company of the United States whose main shareholder is – now hold your breath – a certain Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush administration and the man many feel should be in jail for championing the Iraq war with false and faked information.
The Mexican Daily ‘La Jornada’ asked in an editorial: If the fear of a pandemic is real why has it not been declared an international emergency so acute that the patent rights of Roche-Relenza and Gilead Sciences must be suspended in the endeavor to save humanity?
Hold it. Our profit-above-all system could not tolerate such a community-oriented action - and might have to call off the swine-flu scare.
Now wouldn’t that be something.